Assassin's Creed PC slips

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 March, 2008

Ubi confirms new April target.

Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition has slipped to "early April", Ubisoft has told Eurogamer, confirming comments in a Q&A with technical lead Charles Beauchemin released earlier today.

Beauchemin had said, "The game will ship in the early days of April," in an official Q&A distributed to the press this morning, with a 4th March datestamp to suggest it's current, despite Ubisoft's recent release schedules - including the current one - all saying 28th March.

Ubisoft has since told Eurogamer that Beauchemin was correct.

That Q&A also included details of the four new investigation types introduced in the PC version of Assassin's Creed, so be sure to bone up on that if you're interested. We like the sound of the Rooftop Race Challenge ones.

And Ubisoft also scattered some Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut screenshots across the electronic cobblestones of our email face, so be sure to marvel at those.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Chufty #1 4 years ago

    Interesting, as it's already available to pirates :p

  • mallocks #2 4 years ago

    Perhaps the pirates have been leaked a version that's bugged to hell, it'd be a certain poetic justice.

  • Lim-Dul #3 4 years ago

    Well - I'd rather call the fact that pirates get to play the game earlier (bugged or not - they'll be able to download cracked patches anyway) poetic INjustice. ;-)

  • UncleLou #4 4 years ago

    I don't pirate stuff anyway, but Ubisoft would be the last publisher of which I'd download a game from a torrent site.

    /says no more

  • Nithron #5 4 years ago

    UncleLou: Is that some kind of thinly veiled threat, or are Ubisoft games just generally shite?

  • Lim-Dul #6 4 years ago

    My editor in chief told me what is wrong with the pirated release - it's missing one whole city. =)

  • UncleLou #7 4 years ago

    UncleLou: Is that some kind of thinly veiled threat, or are Ubisoft games just generally shite?

    Neither nor, actually. I just happen to know that Ubisoft have watched (and probably still are watching) torrent sites pretty closely recently, and have sent out cease and desist letters. Thousands, not a few.
    Edited by 1 at 04/03/08 @ 21:55

  • tapper #8 4 years ago

    @UncleLou,

    Are they sending thousands of C&D to ISPs? That sounds like a huge waste of time.
    Edited by 1 at 04/03/08 @ 22:29

  • UncleLou #9 4 years ago

    To the ISPs? No, why? To the people who downloaded the file. Unrelated to Ubisoft, that's how it generally works: They get the names and addresses via the ISPs of course, with help from the Public Attorney. I just know from a few law magazines that Ubisoft are doing this a lot lately.

    In one case I worked on (not Ubisoft), I know that around 12.000 C&D letters have been sent out. That's in Germany, mind. The risk to get caught is still pretty low all in all I guess, they take "snapshots" of torrent sites. It's not just games publishers, but also music and film companies etc. There's been quite an increase lately, so I guess the copyright holders, lawyers, PA and ISPs are used to the procedure now.
    Edited by 2 at 04/03/08 @ 23:05

  • Wyrm #10 4 years ago

    Runs pretty well actually, the specs quoted scared me to death, got everything maxed out and it's slick.

  • Lim-Dul #11 4 years ago

    UncleLou - oh, c'mon. Usually they send out C&D letters based on American legislation and they can pretty much kiss everybody's ass while doing so.

    Also, getting to the people who are downloading the illegal files is REALLY hard without breaking like a dozen privacy laws... The cost of trying to catch all the "small fries" is not economically feasible as well...

    Personally I wouldn't think about it... Don't pirate (good) games (with the bad ones you can do whatever you like ;-) for moral reasons and not because you could get caught, which you probably won't - unless you're some kind of hacker group that's releasing illegal stuff on a massive scale.

    Runs pretty well actually, the specs quoted scared me to death, got everything maxed out and it's slick.

    Speak of the devil... ;-)
    Edited by 3 at 05/03/08 @ 04:45

  • UncleLou #12 4 years ago

    UncleLou - oh, c'mon. Usually they send out C&D letters based on American legislation and they can pretty much kiss everybody's ass while doing so.


    I've never ever seen a C&D letter not based on the German Copyright Act here.

    Also, getting to the people who are downloading the illegal files is REALLY hard without breaking like a dozen privacy laws

    Not at all. They're breaking as many privacy laws as you're breaking when you report a number plate of a car involved in an accident to the police.

    The cost of trying to catch all the "small fries" is not economically feasible as well...


    I don't know what the technical side of things cost, but the C&D letters pay for themselves. I agree that it's not very effective though, just like police controls aren't very effective to keep people from, say, drunk driving.

    Don't pirate (good) games (with the bad ones you can do whatever you like ;-)

    Nice theory, but only leads to people pirating having impossibly high standards of what makes a good game in most cases.

    Anyway, that wasn't the intention of my post. I am just saying what the legal sitiation here is, and that many publishers have "woken up" in the last 6 months or so. Whether they will think it's pretty futile or itnsify their efforts, only time will tell.

  • Lim-Dul #13 4 years ago

    I've never ever seen a C&D letter not based on the German Copyright Act here.

    Hmmm - and have you ever seen a C&D letter at all? I mean physically, not sent to you but not reported e.g. by some magazine?

    Not at all. They're breaking as many privacy laws as you're breaking when you report a number plate of a car involved in an accident to the police.

    I'm not an expert on German law so I won't deny that but in many countries such practice would be impossible. I've been living in Germany for seven years but now I'm back in Poland. Here nobody ever caught any small-time pirates, especially since virtually everybody who has a computer and an internet connection is pirating stuff. Luckily there are also honest people who buy the stuff they are using/playing although nobody is wholly "clean"...

    Nice theory, but only leads to people pirating having impossibly high standards of what makes a good game in most cases.

    That was irony, UncleLou. :-D